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Jul 10, 2012
There is a silent measurement quality crisis and few people are aware. Infrared thermometers are being used more and more for critical temperature measurements without much assurance that their values are accurate. Infrared thermometers can be calibrated to improve and assure measurement accuracy, but even the flat-plate radiation sources used to assure those measurements at temperatures below 1000 °C often lack the traceability necessary to be a reliable as a calibration standard.
So what’s...
Jun 27, 2012
Imagine for a moment you are Bob. Bob lives in New York and recently purchased a deadweight tester from a gentleman in South Carolina. The deadweight tester came with a certificate of calibration, but the instrument appears to read 0.5 to 0.6 psi off when calibrating his 0.05% 1,000 psi gauges. Bob scratches his head, then double checks the gauges with the older equipment he is replacing. The gauges read well within tolerance on his old equipment. Bob is not happy. Can you blame him?
Bob...
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